LEADER 04215oam 2200685M 450 001 9910782216503321 005 20230124182646.0 010 $a1-138-35770-7 010 $a1-351-14471-5 010 $a1-351-14472-3 010 $a1-351-14470-7 010 $a1-281-83429-7 010 $a9786611834296 010 $a0-7546-9367-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000550065 035 $a(EBL)438817 035 $a(OCoLC)560632810 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000257902 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11939481 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000257902 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10254967 035 $a(PQKB)11487009 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC438817 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5231327 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL438817 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10254926 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL183429 035 $a(OCoLC)1027127091$z(OCoLC)1016045832 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1027127091 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9781351144728 035 $a(OCoLC)1027127091 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000550065 100 $a20180212d2017 my 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTheology and Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon /$fSteven Matthews 205 $a1st. 210 1$cRoutledge,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (165 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8153-9842-5 311 $a0-7546-6252-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1 Breaking with a Puritan Past; 2 Bacon's Turn toward the Ancient Faith; 3 In the Beginning: The Creation of Nature and the Nature of the Fall; 4 On the Way of Salvation: Bacon's Twofold Via Salutis; 5 In the Autumn of the World: Features of the Age of Instauration; 6 Bacon's Circle and his Legacy; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThis study re-evaluates the religious beliefs of Francis Bacon and the role which his theology played in the development of his program for the reform of learning and the natural sciences, the Great Instauration. Bacon's Instauration writings are saturated with theological statements and Biblical references which inform and explain his program, yet this aspect of his writings has received little attention. Previous considerations of Bacon's religion have been drawn from a fairly short list of his published writings. Consequently, Bacon has been portrayed as everything from an atheist to a Puritan; scholarly consensus is lacking. This book argues that by considering the historical context of Bacon's society, and his conversion from Puritanism to anti-Calvinism as a young man, his own theology can be brought into clearer focus, and his philosophy more properly understood. After leaving his mother's household, Bacon underwent a transformation of belief which led him away from his mother's Calvinism and toward the writings of the ancient Church Fathers, particularly Irenaeus of Lyon. Bacon's theology increasingly came to reflect the theological interests of his friend and editor Lancelot Andrewes. The patristic turn of Bacon's belief in the last two decades of the reign of Elizabeth significantly affected the development of his philosophical program which was produced in the first two decades of the Stuart era. This study then examines the theology present in the Instauration writings themselves and concludes with a consideration of the effect which Bacon's theology had on the subsequent direction of empirical science and natural theology in the English context. In so doing it not only offers a new perspective on Bacon, but will serve as a contribution toward a better understanding of the religious context of, and motivations behind, empirical science in early modern England. 606 $aReligion and science 606 $aTheology 615 0$aReligion and science. 615 0$aTheology. 676 $a192 700 $aMatthews$b Steven$01155149 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782216503321 996 $aTheology and Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon$93799029 997 $aUNINA